To:L. B. KAMENEV

Written:Written in February, before the 25th, 1922Published:First published in 1965 inCollected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 54.

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ComradeKamenev:

Writeme briefly about the
mandate.[1]We can’t have
this pickled. Perhaps, we could decide it this way: leave
the old text. Add five lines: trade instead of commodityexchange. Accept the dates (twice a year oreven less often),
as the local people have decided.

P.S.Reply about the German doctor.

AboutPeshekhonov, I propose that the Politbureau adopt
the following decision:
1) instruct Popov to give him work
involving trade and sanitary statistics, and no other;
2)
impose on Popov personally the responsibility to see that
Peshekhonov keeps out of politics;
3) inform Popov of
§§ 1 and 2 orally, against his signature, without giving
him any paper, with the serious warning that if he
divulges this, he will be dismissed and prosecuted;
4) set
Unschlicht the task of keeping a strict watch on Peshekhonov;
5) issue a reprimand to the Kharkov Gubernia Committee
and the Ukrainian C.C. (for making this public) with an
entry in the Party
card.[2]

[1]Whatthe reference is to has not been established.

[2]Areference to the fact that the Kharkov Gubernia Committee and
the Central Committee of the Ukrainian Communist Party
(Bolsheviks) had divulged the afore-mentioned decision of the Politbureau
of the R.C.P.(B.) C.C. The Politbureau adopted Lenin’s proposal
on February 25, 1922. See also Note 54.